Money Will Kill ChatGPT's Magic

Arthur C. Clarke once remarked, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That ambient sense of magic has been missing from the past decade of internet history. Each new tablet and smartphone is only a modest improvement over its predecessor. The expected revolutions--the metaverse, blockchain, self-driving cars--have plodded along, always with promises that the real transformation is just a few years away. The one exception this year has been in the field of generative AI.